{"product_id":"the-museum-age-in-austriahungary-9780271087115","title":"The Museum Age in AustriaHungary","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA critical study of the history of public art museums in Austria-Hungary, examining their place in the wider history of European museums and collecting, their role as public institutions, and their involvement in the complex cultural politics of the Habsburg state.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This is a well-written and organized overview of the history of fine arts display in late nineteenth-century Austria-Hungary and will be of interest to any scholar who studies cultural production or urbanization in that period.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Laura A. Detre \u003ci\u003eJournal of Austrian Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This is a highly original study. There is no other comparative treatment of the development of art museums in the major cities of the Habsburg monarchy, and only such a study can address effectively the analytic questions about the development and functions of the art museums in a changing public sphere that are raised here.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Gary B. Cohen,author of \u003ci\u003eEducation and Middle-Class Society in Imperial Austria, 1848–1918\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“While the history of British, French, and Italian museums has received extensive coverage in recent Anglophone scholarship, the history of collections in the Habsburg lands is much less widely known. Composed by experts in the empire’s many cultural worlds, this volume fills that gap, breaking new ground by illustrating how a polyphonic empire generated a rich profusion of highly diverse museums.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Suzanne Marchand,author of \u003ci\u003eGerman Orientalism in the Age of Empire: Religion, Race, and Scholarship\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“. . . this monograph not only represents an important contribution to the history of museums in the Habsburg Empire but also a contribution to the history of the Viennese school of art history, one of the starting points of the history of art as a profession. As such, it will undoubtedly serve numerous researchers as a starting point for further investigations.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Dragan Damjanović \u003ci\u003eAustrian History Yearbook\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pennsylvania State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400811618647,"sku":"9780271087115","price":30.56,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780271087115.jpg?v=1730471631","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-museum-age-in-austriahungary-9780271087115","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}